Tuesday, 15 July 2008


I'm trapped in the Land of Telletubbies and I just keep hearing the "Tinky Winky" song repeat in my head. If you have kids you know what that sounds like. You hear that annoying techno chipmunk sound everywhere you go. We've already discovered three indoor play areas. These are our playgrounds because there are no public playgrounds outdoors and it's great during this rainy season. You pay a couple thousand won and let the kids play. I can sit and read my book. Some moms drop off their kids. They are really cool. Benjamin loves the ones that have the train ride. He asks the Korean woman, is it time to ride the train? like every 15 minutes. Now we just learned the word for train. Kicha.

Back to the land of telletubbies. Sometimes you see men driving pink motorcycles with Hello Kitty on it or Tweetybird car seat covers. Interesting. And it's very hard to distinguish between the men and women's clothing in the dept stores. I'm very confused and sometimes when I think I'm picking up a pair of what I think are women's capri pants the sales clerk will say "mens". The men also carry handbags or you could say a murse. All of the younger adults and kids wear t-shirts with American sayings and writing on them and I mean every single t-shirt. They love the look and the design of it but the hilarious thing is that most of the t-shirts make no sense. They are nonsensical phrases and I guess since most of them don't know English they don't care. But we get a good chuckle reading them.

I have to get a better handle on this beef situation and I will report back soon. All I know is that it is an extremely big deal here. All of the restaurants have signs that say Australian Beef, clean and safe. At our hotel dinner buffet the servers even wore t-shirts exemplifying that, and Australian flags were raised.

1 comment:

Lisa said...

I give you much sympathy about the teletubbies. I will never ever understand them.